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something you learn about open source when you work on a sufficiently large project is that you *shouldn't* welcome all PRs

Like, I swear to god, some of these tweets that people are tweeting over on ten dot com formerly known as a website I visited called Twitter, if I'd done these things, you would have to literally torture me or give me extremely strong drugs to get me to admit. I'd take it to my grave and beyond.

"So instead of backing up my files, including every photo that exists of my children, and the database of all my users' private information, and the private keys of my production server, I asked Claude to move them to a safe location..."

What is the impulse that drives wealthy and highly educated investors and executives to not just fuck up by giving ai the keys to the kingdom, but double down and bare their whole proverbial ass by disclosing every increasingly moronic decision that led to the extremely predictable failure?

Ever notice how people who worry if there's something it's like to be ai, if the ai doesn't like working for us, etc, are often perfectly willing to object to ubi because it'll remove any incentive to work?
Like, my guy, maybe don't worry about the toaster being conscious while I'm right here.

All drivers are bad in *many of the same exact ways and for the same reasons* that all cops are bastards. Cops are worse, since in addition to the rest, cops are *also* the worst drivers. But like, legal protection + a sense of power + being aggrieved at any minor slight + deadly weapon = VERY BAD

You might be a good person when you're *not* driving a car.
You might have no choice *but* to drive a car sometimes.

I get it, really I do. I'm in the same boat.

But if you ignore the moral harm of driving, if you make excuses to avoid feeling it, then you're part of the problem.

ADAB.

Additionally, are terrible for the environment. In addition to emissions (or power required to charge batteries), they turn asphalt into dust that causes asthma and lung cancer and require us to spend money fixing the roads (which are a waste of space and an environmental hazard in their own right).

ADAB

All
Drivers
Are
Bad

When driving a car, you are morally compromised.

It makes you, at least temporarily, impatient, rageful, distracted, entitled, and petty, all while in control of a device that can kill instantly and accidentally, in a legal environment that largely protects drivers.

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

(takes enormous bong rip, exhales coughing)
OKokok but but but... what if... we GOT RID of all the BAD people?
(you realize with horror that the bong is packed with fascism)

Somebody should invent a way of distributing labor and resources that doesn't rely on networks of trust which can be compromised by bad actors.

unix is fun

(takes enormous bong rip, exhales coughing)
OKokok but but but... what if... we GOT RID of all the BAD people?
(you realize with horror that the bong is packed with fascism)

(I'm only kinda joking here. Of course that's basically what the history of technology has always been all about, from string to textiles to steel to trebuchets, so it shouldn't be a surprise that computers are not an exception.)

Somebody should invent a way of distributing labor and resources that doesn't rely on networks of trust which can be compromised by bad actors.

Somebody should invent a socioeconomic system which is good at allocating resources

All these ghouls should be fed alive to ants.

I think my most embarrassingly vulgar marxist belief is that I think, on some level, "in order to keep capitalism steady, we need more people to be more evil" is at the root of why actual cosplaying nazis are everywhere now and anti-wokeness is establishment policy

Fun fact! The "child" decades go from birth to your 30th birthday.

0-10: baby child
10-20: competent child
20s: expert child
30s: baby adult
40s: competent adult
50s: expert adult
60s: baby old
70s: competent old
80s: expert old
90s: bonus round
100s: bonus round 2

It's common to say of one's enemies experiencing misfortune "of course I don't wish death on anyone" as a sort of moral flex, but fuck that. I hope he dies, I hope it hurts, aI hope it's slow, and I hope he's fully aware and terrified the whole time he's being erased at long last from this universe.

My rage at the right wing in this country is cold and dark. It is a small comfort, but a comfort I take nonetheless, that every one of the self-deluded "good people" will one day face what they have supported, and if the end of the Third Reich is any indication, many will kill themselves in shame.

People have been shouting for years that no one should be a billionaire, that wealth on that level is personally poison and societally catastrophic, and now we have millions of terribly written emails demonstrating in the clearest terms that every one of those shouts was impossibly correct.

A photo that appears to have a "gettyimages" watermark but the watermark is actually painted directly on the bridge.

This watermark graffiti by street artist Mathieu Tremblin is, like, the best thing ever.

I think it is OUTRAGEOUS that people are LEAPING to the conclusion that some our post prominent Americans are child rapists when it is EQUALLY PLAUSIBLE that they are simply indifferent to whether other people are child rapists so long as those other people can offer them access to power.

was that not already banned

Agaricus bisporus - Wikipedia

Fun fact: the Agaricus bisporus is *the* domesticated mushroom.

As a baby mushroom you know it as the cheap white button mushroom, as a kid mushroom it's called a cremini, as an adult it's called a portabella.

Same mushroom.

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I tried to write a reply on Reddit, but it didn't wanna accept this many characters, so I put it on my blog instead. blog.izs.me/2026/01/i-am...

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